Isa 43

People Repopulated

And now, thus says theLORD God, the one making you, O Jacob, and the one shaping you, O Israel, Do not fear! for I ransomed you, I called you by your name, [3mine 2are 1you].

2And if you should pass over through water, [2with 3you 1I am]; and rivers shall not engulf you. And if you go through fire, in no way should you be incinerated; a flame shall not incinerate you.

3For I amtheLORD your God, the holy one of Israel, the one delivering you. I made a barter for you -- Egypt, and Ethiopia, and Seba for you.

4From which time [2valuable 1you were esteemed] before me, you were glorified, and I loved you. And I will give men for you, and rulers for your head.

5Do not fear, for [2with 3you 1I am]! From the east I will lead your seed, and from the west I will bring you together.

6I will say to the north, Bring! and to the south, Do not restrain! Bring my sons from a land at a distance, and my daughters from uttermost parts of the earth,

7even all, as many as have been called upon to my name. For in my glory I carefully prepared him, and I shaped him, and I made him.

8And I brought out [2people 1a blind], and the eyes are likewise blind; and deaf ones [2the 3ears 1having].

9All the nations were brought together, and [4shall be brought together 1rulers 2from 3them]. Who will announce these things? Or the things from the beginning, who will announce? Let them bring forth their witnesses, and let them be justified, and let them hear, and let them speak truth!

10Be witnesses to me! and I witness, says theLORD God, and my servant whom I chose. That you should know, and should trust, and should perceive that I am. Before me [3did not 4exist 1another 2God], and after me it will not be.

12I announced it, and I delivered. I berated, and there was not among you an alien god. You are to me witnesses, and I amtheLORD God,

13even from the beginning; and there is not one [2from 3my hands 1taking]. I will do, and who shall turn it?

14Thus says theLORD God, the one ransoming you, the holy one of Israel. Because of you I will send unto Babylon, and I will rouse [2the ones fleeing 1all], and the Chaldeans [2in 3boats 1shall be tied].

17the one leading chariots and horse, and [2multitude 1a mighty]; but they were gone to sleep, and they shall not rise up; they were extinguished as a flax being extinguished.

18Do not remember the first things, and the ancient things do not reckon together!

19Behold, I do new things which now shall arise, and you all shall know them. And I will make [2in 3the 4wilderness 1a way], and [2in 3the 4waterless place1rivers].

20[5shall bless 6me 1The 2wild beasts 3of the 4field], sirens and daughters of ostriches; for I established [2in 3the 4wilderness 1water], and rivers in the waterless place, to give to drink to [3race 1my 2chosen],